Experiments support alternative theory of information processing in the cortex

Thursday, October 16, 2008 - 16:07 in Psychology & Sociology

Neurons in the sound-processing part of the brain's cortex are experts at timing. With remarkable precision, they fire electrochemical pulses or "spikes" in sync with the cues they receive from other neurons, even when these cues are separated by very small time intervals.

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